A bon vivant, a boulevardier, a man about the ‘virtual town’; of various passions and pursuits who contradicts himself and contains multitudes.
Editor: Whitman. Credit?
Author: He won’t mind.
§ 1 · Working
Professionally, I am a passionate, results-driven thought leader who leverages work on knowledge strategy: the discipline underneath customer success, enterprise support, content strategy, and, these days, every AI initiative your company is betting on.
Editor: Delete. Nobody talks like this.
Editor: Serial comma: always.
Author: Always.
Every AI initiative is a knowledge initiative wearing a trench coat.
Editor: Set as display. Bigger.
Author: Bigger.
§ 2 · Writing
Here, in blog form, I write about knowledge strategy, context management, and whatever else demands an ellipsis…
Editor: That’s one.
§ 3 · Photographing
I photograph the blue hour, the fog, and the road in between. Now and then my own shadow wanders into the frame, and I leave it there.



Editor: Your shadow is in the first print.
Author: It was there first.
Editor: Crop tighter?
Author: No. Leave the sky.
§ 4 · Being
Editor: 27 years. Check.
Author: Checked. Ouch.
I am also a wine and whiskies enthusiast: a co-founder of the 3 Drunken Celts tasting group, once chief distiller at what was then the smallest legal distillery in Oregon, and today an owner-operator of Big Bottom Distilling.
Editor: AU: whisky or whiskey?
Author: Both. It depends on the bottle.
Editor: And this?
Author: Research.
I work hard and play harder. I am obdurate, sardonic, and heavily opinionated… except when I’m not.
Editor: That’s two. And it’s only galley one.
Author: Stet. Both.
I wantonly abuse ellipses and have a deep love for Strunk & White, CMOS, and the serial comma. I have quixotic ideas and strive to be the greater fool.
Editor: Confirmed. See above.
Editor: ‘greater fool’: sure?
Author: Certain.
AI drafts, humans ship. This page has been through the human.
Galley 2 of 2 · the record, newest first
Editor: Squash these?
Author: No. The history stays.
- 2026-09-09writingThe Still Doesn’t Make the Whiskey
Editor: Whiskey?
Author: Correct here. American.
- 2026workingWrote the operating model down. Contextkeeping.
- 2023writingThirty-eight entries in one year
- 2019-12workingIBM developerWorks closes. The blog I co-authored retires at 60M+ views.
- 2012-10-12beingAnother 1760 mile round trip…
Editor: Three.
Author: …
- 2012-09-13photographingWaywardCelt Photography: the official launch
- 2012beingFirst expressions at Tualatin Valley Distilling
- 2011..2013writingOne hundred and fifty entries
Editor: 150 in three years?
Author: I had opinions.
- 2006writingFirst entry
- 1999being3 Drunken Celts
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